Political Punch

I read some of these older posts and laughed. Especially about the one that says "McCain doesn't flip flop". I think John McCain has changed since that June Post. I guess somewhere in July he traded in his soul and his 'maverick' title for the chance of being President. If you don't believe me, watch his tv commercials. They are full of half-truths at best. Don't call it political because I am a Republican. I just don't want another liar/loser to be our president.

Bob Barr 08

Obama: Palin...lipstick...pig. Need I say more?

I don't know why people consider McCain funny. I never have.

Obama said he had visited 57 states and only had two more to go. Michelle is proud of her country for the first time in her adult life.

This is presidential? Give me a break.

This is who Hillary's female supporters want for president. This is same candidate who called his wife a female private body part if front of reporters. Further, McCain wanted Clay Williams to host a fundraiser for him. Clay was the one who said, if a women is being rape she should relax and enjoy it. Oh well, Hillary's supporters are trying to teach the democrat party and Obama a lesson by supporting a candidate who has such a low opinion of women, that makes good sense to me.

Omentum, do let us have a discussion of Obama's "family values".

One of the first general election campaign ads to be aired by Obama features the theme of "family" and "values".

Obama's political ambitions have helped him get past his "pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against [his] mother's race" and as these ads make clear Obama is long past any reticence he may have once had about "ingratiating himself with whites." In Obama's very first presidential ads Obama features his his long ignored white mother and Kansas bred grandparents.

And the visuals of the ad are quite calculated. Nowhere to be seen are Obama's Kenyan relatives or even his Asian half-sister. In fact, Obama is shown only with whites. No other people of color can be found in the ad.

In a commercial that begins with Obama telling us how he has been blessed by "family" THE MAN'S OWN BLACK WIFE AND KIDS ARE NOT SHOWN.

A man who will run an ad about "family" and feature in it his white grandparents but not his own black wife and children is a very, very cold-hearted race calculator and not much devoted to "family values", at least not by most decent standards.

The question "when did you stop beating your wife?" is not, as Tapper claims, "a bit of distasteful DC yuckery so commonly quoted it's hackneyed." Rather, the question is used in every first year law school evidence class as the classic example of the unfair misdirecting question that leaves the respondent with no choice but to assume the truthfulness of the underlying yet unproven proposition -- that the respondent is presently or has in the past beaten his wife.

McCain was quite right to raise it in this context as an example of media unfairness.

BILL45

I am one of the some

Come on Jeff... stick to the subject. I know the seat is hot... don't go nowhere ... but to address your argument. Bill Clinton's act was the most detestable. He lost all my respect after monica-gate.

McCain lost my respect when he cheated on his wife as well. We need a president with true family values.

OBAMA 08

i think something that comes out of a candidates mouth is a story. did you get the memo. EVERYTHING IS AN ISSUE as america decides who is the next president.

Perfect example of a reporter creating news on slow day rather than actually reporting something substantive.

I would have had more respect for him if he simply wrote, "and today, nothing happened".

Is it any wonder that one of the few things that a mainline "news" outlet would feature about the "conservative" candidate in an election season otherwise nearly devoid of any mention of him, is his goofy sense of humor?

Highlighting what is clearly nothing more than a mildly awkward choice of allusions while nearly ignoring all the much more serious issues McCain is trying to talk about is, to me, just one more example of a left-leaning media that is doing all it can to elect their candidate, Obama.

And this is coming from someone who is neither Rep. or Dem. and finds McCain the more objectionable, in a personal sense.

But, more objectionable than I find both candidates, I absolutely detest slanted and duplicitous "journalism". And this is an almost perfect example.

Pathetic story, unworthy of mention. The media's values and what they sieze upon for "news" has come to a point where it is negatively impacting the country so much that we have lost ourselves. This is a shameful story to bother with.

This is just one reason why he can never be President. Someone who jokes about wife beating, someone who jokes about killing thousands of civilians with his jokes about bombing Iran. This person is not serious and he is Bush II and not suited to be President.

Lay of MCCAIN folkes

We thank him for his half century of service to this country

He is not showing early signs of senility and he is not losing his bearings.
He is sharp as a tack and no he is not confused. He does absolutely positively not resemble the greeter at our Walmart. He does not disrespect women.. most notably his wives. I think supporting a president by voting with him 95% is admirable.

President Bush can raise a lot of money for him.

He does not flipflop

He served our country heroicly 30 some odd years ago.

LAY off MCCAIN FOLKS

OBAMA 08 hehehehe

I hate awkward moments, but this one was funny!

If McCain praised Bush by repeating the joke: "If George Bush walked on water the media would have a headline of 'Bush can't swim.'"

And, the headline about the joke would be:
"McCain shows disrespect for Christian values."

Wife beating, in some cultures, is accepted, even revered, along with honor killing. Our next AMERICAN President, luckily, is not of that ilk. Support McCain! God BLESS America!

The phrase about wife beating is in my college textbook as the quintessential example of a loaded question. McCain's use of the term was appropriate and shows his natural wit. Those upset by McCain's use of it are the typical pathetic, whining people who think "hope" and "change" are political platforms on which to base support for a candidate and they wouldn't be voting for McCain regardless.

Who benefits from a party that fields candidates that appear to be mentally challenged, who advocate more state power and entanglements in foreign wars (that Washington and others warned against).

Who benefits from a party that fields candidates that advocate policies that undermine traditional and historical values and institutions, that routinely confuse the concepts of inclusion and destruction.

Destruction via internal vs external means. Pick your poison. Cui bono?